The California Faculty Association at Cal Poly is dedicated to
protecting the rights of ALL Cal Poly faculty.

If you have questions about your rights or suspect your rights
have been violated, please contact CFA immediately! Contact Jere
Ramsey at 805-459-4058 or jramsey@calpoly.edu.

The CFA office, located in Building 38, Room 141, is open Monday
through Thursday 9 AM to 12:30 PM. Board members are available by
email and telephone throughout the year. Please see the
“Executive Board” link for contact information.

All Cal Poly faculty members can access our Cal Poly CFA Faculty
“PolyLearn Class” for more information about Cal Poly issues. The
course should be listed under “Other PolyLearn Access” on the
main page of your portal. If you are not able to access the
course, please email jramsey@calpoly.edu.

All Cal Poly lecturers can also access the Cal Poly CFA Lecturers
“PolyLearn Class” for more information about Cal Poly issues for
lecturers. Lecturers who are not able to access this course
should email jramsey@calpoly.edu.

During Black History Month, faculty at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
are continuing “blunt conversations” about the overtly racist
attitudes that surfaced on campus over the past year through a
12-hour Teach-In on Thursday, Feb. 21 to assert that “Inclusion Starts with Me.”

We were dismayed to learn that the Office of Student Rights and
Responsibilities is investigating a group of Cal Poly students
who conducted a peaceful demonstration to protest the presence of
military contractor Raytheon at a recent Cal Poly career fair.
These students were clearly exercising their constitutionally
protected free speech rights. They did not break any laws or
violate any campus policies.

NOV. 2015—Stagnant faculty salaries are no laughing matter, but
faculty at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo infused a little humor into
Chancellor Tim White’s Open Forum at the campus Tuesday
afternoon.

CFA members passed out Tic-Tac-Toe cards as people filled Chumash
Auditorium. Each card contained pointed questions, and listed the
rules. If White actually answers a question, mark it with an ‘X’.
If he dodges the question, mark it with an ‘O’.

Many CFA executive board members were able to attend President
Armstrong’s “Listening Session” yesterday. Like you, we were
moved by our colleagues’ eloquent expression of their
frustrations with Cal Poly’s persistent inequity and inspired by
their continuing commitment to our students. Like you, we were
not persuaded by the administration’s rhetoric.

Based on our data, we have concluded that our administrators made
several factually incorrect statements at the “Listening
Session.”

CFA’s Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Chapter found such wild success
with a showing of Robert Reich’s “Inequality for All” in November
that leaders there repeated a showing of the film, including a
live webinar with Reich beforehand, and are hoping to show the
film again during the spring quarter.

The chapter is excited about the interest on campus about this
film and so is planning a spring showing in an even larger room;
they will be inviting other staff and studnets to participate,
said Glen Thorncroft, chapter president.

It seems the campus Provost at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo may have
missed the memo about the CSU’s mission to provide quality,
affordable education to California’s working class.

If it weren’t published in an article in the
California Coast News on November 18, it would be almost
impossible to believe the following statements were delivered by
a high-ranking administrator in the CSU system:

Join us from 12-1 in the UU Plaza and tell Charlie Reed that
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We will provide signs and lunch. We
will also give a t shirt to the first 70 people; if you have one,
wear a black t shirt in case you are not one of the lucky t shirt
recipients.

The bus (with wi-fi!) leaves the Embassy Suites on Madonna Road
at 7 AM on Thursday, November 17. We will feed you 3 meals,
provide signs and t shirts, and guarantee to have you back at
Embassy Suites by 7 PM.

As the “CFA Headlines” have stated, CFA is now allowed to strike
because the Chancellor is refusing to pay the SSIs and Equity Pay
given to us in our LAST contract, even though THREE impartial
fact-finders have ruled that he should do so. There are two easy
things you can do to put pressure on the Chancellor.